Repository details

Southern California Earthquake Data Center

Name of repository
Southern California Earthquake Data Center
Additional name(s)
  • SCEDC
Repository URL
https://scedc.caltech.edu/
Subject(s)
Description
The Southern California Earthquake Data Center (SCEDC) operates at the Seismological Laboratory at Caltech and is the primary archive of seismological data for southern California. The 1932-to-present Caltech/USGS catalog maintained by the SCEDC is the most complete archive of seismic data for any region in the United States. Our mission is to maintain an easily accessible, well-organized, high-quality, searchable archive for research in seismology and earthquake engineering.
Contact(s)
Content type(s)
Keyword(s)
Persistent identifier(s) of the repository
Repository type(s)
  • disciplinary
Mission statement for designated community
https://scedc.caltech.edu/about/dchistory.html
Research data repository language(s)
  • English
Data and/or service provider
  • serviceProvider

Institutions (7)

Institution
California Institute of Technology
Additional name(s)
  • Caltech
Institution
Country
United States
Type(s) of responsibility
  • general
  • technical
Type of institution
non-profit
Institution
Geological and Planetary Sciences , Caltech's Seismological Laboratory
Additional name(s)
  • GPS, Caltech's Seismological Laboratory
Country
United States
Type(s) of responsibility
  • general
Type of institution
non-profit
Institution
Southern California Earthquake Center
Additional name(s)
  • SCEC
Institution
Country
United States
Type(s) of responsibility
  • general
  • technical
Type of institution
non-profit
Institution
Southern California Seismic Network
Additional name(s)
  • SCSN
Country
United States
Type(s) of responsibility
  • general
  • technical
Type of institution
non-profit
Institution
U.S. Geological Survey
Additional name(s)
  • USGS
Institution
Country
United States
Type(s) of responsibility
  • funding
Type of institution
non-profit
Institution
U.S. Geological Survey, National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program, Earthquake Hazards Program
Additional name(s)
  • USGS, NEHRP, Earthquake Hazards Program
Country
United States
Type(s) of responsibility
  • general
Type of institution
non-profit
Institution
U.S. Geological Survey, Advanced National Seismic System
Additional name(s)
  • USGS
  • ANSS
Country
United States
Type(s) of responsibility
  • general
Type of institution
non-profit

Database access

Type of access to research data repository
open

Data access (1)

Type of access to data
open

Data licenses (1)

DataLicense
other

Data upload (1)

Type of data upload
restricted
Data upload restriction type(s)
  • feeRequired
Persistent identifier system(s)
  • DOI
Name of the repository software
  • other
Data citation guideline
https://scedc.caltech.edu/about/citation.html
Quality management
yes

Application programming interfaces (1)

Type
other
Url
http://service.scedc.caltech.edu/

Alerting services (1)

Type of alerting service
ATOM

Remarks

Remarks
Earthquake Catalogs: https://scedc.caltech.edu/data/eq-catalogs.html The Southern California Earthquake Data Center (SCEDC) operates at the Seismological Laboratory at Caltech and is the primary archive of earthquake data for southern California. The Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC) is headquartered at the University of Southern California and is a community of scientists and specialists who actively coordinate research on earthquake hazards. The Data Center is a central resource of SCEC and is supported by SCEC, but it is a separate entity.
Entry date
2015-03-27
Last update
2025-06-24
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re3data.org: Southern California Earthquake Data Center; editing status 2025-06-24; re3data.org - Registry of Research Data Repositories. https://doi.org/10.17616/R3ZS8F last accessed: 2025-07-02